Client: Ideas Festival – State Government of Queensland Materials: recycled bikes and components, steel, vinyl sticker Features: designed to demonstrate multiple mechanisms of movements and is operated by a single lever Completed: 2005 The machine was created solely from bicycle parts to…

Client: LIVID Festival Materials: snow and ice Features: Snow in Brisbane’s summer Completed: 1998 The ice yard was installed at the entrance to Brisbane’s LIVID Festival. The ice chair was carved on site by a world champion ice carver, and…

Client: Livid Festival Materials: aluminium, flexible waterhose, pump, fibre optics, concrete control gear Features: giant sprinklers, timed to go off every fifteen minutes Completed: 1996 Every 15 minutes the work would spray high pressure jets of water on the crowd…

Materials: handforged steel Features: new trend for the automobile world Completed: 1994 With push and pull levers for hands and feet to lift its steel bars up and forward, this hand-forged go cart digs into the ground to drag and…

Materials: various objects, steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 1993-1996 The idea of the tea bag jiggler came to me one night when a friend was making me a cup of taa [earl grey] for the first time. I looked…

Materials: hand forged steel Features: walks in a circle Completed: 1993 I made a machine to walk in a circle. Part of its absurdity was the insane amount of time I spent in building each bit by hand. The idea of creating…

Materials: steel, springs, timber, VW parts Features: mechanical walking drinks waiter Completed: 1993 This project started with an exploration in walking machines. The mechanism resembles a chicken’s gait. The full drinks are balanced on the back, while the empty glasses…

Completed: 1993 Materials: Steel timber, paint, springs nuts and bolts Features: Revolutionise chip industry The idea behind my work is the melding of whimsy and absurdity. In this case I wanted to take a simple task and make it as hard as…

Materials: Various found objects, steel Features: Revolutionise tea industry Completed: 1993 The idea of the tea bag jiggler came to me one night when a friend was making me a cup of taa [earl grey] for the first time. I looked…